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A nobleman serving on a jury is horrified to recognize the defendant as a woman he once seduced and abandoned, sparking a desperate quest for her salvation. His journey through the brutal Russian penal system becomes a radical transformation of his own conscience and social privilege.
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Publish dateFeb 24, 2026
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Table of contents
1BOOK I.
2CHAPTER I. MASLOVA IN PRISON.
3CHAPTER II. MASLOVA’S EARLY LIFE.: The story of the prisoner Maslova’s life was a very common one.
4CHAPTER III. NEKHLUDOFF.
5CHAPTER IV. MISSY.
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6CHAPTER V. THE JURYMEN.
7CHAPTER VI. THE JUDGES.
8CHAPTER VII. THE OFFICIALS OF THE COURT.
9CHAPTER VIII. SWEARING IN THE JURY.
10CHAPTER IX. THE TRIAL—THE PRISONERS QUESTIONED.
11CHAPTER X. THE TRIAL—THE INDICTMENT.
12CHAPTER XI. THE TRIAL—MASLOVA CROSS-EXAMINED.
13CHAPTER XII. TWELVE YEARS BEFORE.: “Yes, this was Katusha.”
14CHAPTER XIII. LIFE IN THE ARMY.
15CHAPTER XIV. THE SECOND MEETING WITH MASLOVA.
16CHAPTER XV. THE EARLY MASS.
17CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST STEP.
18CHAPTER XVII. NEKHLUDOFF AND KATUSHA.
19CHAPTER XVIII. AFTERWARDS.
20CHAPTER XIX. THE TRIAL—RESUMPTION.
21CHAPTER XX. THE TRIAL—THE MEDICAL REPORT.
22CHAPTER XXI. THE TRIAL—THE PROSECUTOR AND THE ADVOCATES.
23CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIAL—THE SUMMING UP.
24CHAPTER XXIII. THE TRIAL—THE VERDICT.
25CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRIAL—THE SENTENCE.
26CHAPTER XXV. NEKHLUDOFF CONSULTS AN ADVOCATE.
27CHAPTER XXVI. THE HOUSE OF KORCHAGIN.
28CHAPTER XXVII. MISSY’S MOTHER.
29CHAPTER XXVIII. THE AWAKENING.
30CHAPTER XXIX. MASLOVA IN PRISON.
31CHAPTER XXX. THE CELL.
32CHAPTER XXXI. THE PRISONERS.
33CHAPTER XXXII. A PRISON QUARREL.
34CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LEAVEN AT WORK—NEKHLUDOFF’S DOMESTIC CHANGES.
35CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ABSURDITY OF LAW—REFLECTIONS OF A JURYMAN.
36CHAPTER XXXV. THE PROCUREUR—NEKHLUDOFF REFUSES TO SERVE.
37CHAPTER XXXVI. NEKHLUDOFF ENDEAVOURS TO VISIT MASLOVA.
38CHAPTER XXXVII. MASLOVA RECALLS THE PAST.
39CHAPTER XXXVIII. SUNDAY IN PRISON—PREPARING FOR MASS.
40CHAPTER XXXIX. THE PRISON CHURCH—BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.: The service began.
41CHAPTER XL. THE HUSKS OF RELIGION.
42CHAPTER XLI. VISITING DAY—THE MEN’S WARD.
43CHAPTER XLII. VISITING DAY—THE WOMEN’S WARD.
44CHAPTER XLIII. NEKHLUDOFF VISITS MASLOVA.
45CHAPTER XLIV. MASLOVA’S VIEW OF LIFE.
46CHAPTER XLV. FANARIN, THE ADVOCATE—THE PETITION.
47CHAPTER XLVI. A PRISON FLOGGING.
48CHAPTER XLVII. NEKHLUDOFF AGAIN VISITS MASLOVA.
49CHAPTER XLVIII. MASLOVA REFUSES TO MARRY.
50CHAPTER XLIX. VERA DOUKHOVA.